Mon.Mar 14, 2022

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Maybell Quantum’s Icebox is a small fridge for large quantum computers

TechCrunch

Maybell Quantum , a Denver-based startup that plans to build hardware for the budding quantum computing ecosystem, is coming out of stealth today and launching Icebox. As the name implies, Icebox is a cryogenic platform to cool quantum processors down to the very low temperatures it takes to run a stable quantum system. Traditionally, these are extremely large systems but Maybell says its Icebox is able to support three times as many qubits in one-tenth the space of currently used setups. “

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The Bullseye Framework, Family, Friends, and Allies

Agile Alliance

The Bulls Eye Framework is an Agile Practice that enables any organization that has adopted Agile or wants to adopt Agile and intends to start its Agile journey or is on its path toward agility. It is a customizable Agile Delivery Framework (ADF) for any organization. About the Framework Designed from scratch, positioned to be … Continued. The post The Bullseye Framework, Family, Friends, and Allies first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Moove raises $105M to scale its vehicle financing product across Asia, Europe and MENA

TechCrunch

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. Existing investors Speedinvest, Left Lane Capital and thelatest.ventures (the first two are lead investors from its Series A) led this round shared between $65 million equity and $40 million debt.

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Human Centered Agile Experience Report

Agile Alliance

Supercharge your Agile with Human-Centered Design We combined Human-Centered Design (HCD) with Agile for a “best of both worlds” approach that achieved striking results. Challenges were : 1. These professions have different mindsets and often struggle to speak to one another. HCD Practitioners are used to spending most of their time in the problem space … Continued.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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IRS FUD: What you need to know about crypto taxes

TechCrunch

Pam Krueger. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Pam Krueger is the founder and CEO of Wealthramp.com , a free online service that matches consumers with qualified, fee-only financial advisers, and the creator and host of the investor-education television series “MoneyTrack.”. More posts by this contributor. You can’t afford to make poor decisions about incentive stock options.

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SupPlant is an Internet of Trees solution dramatically reducing irrigation needs for thirsty crops

TechCrunch

Agtech startup SupPlant ‘s flagship product is, essentially, a Babel fish for plants: leveraging a set of hardware sensors, the plants can tell you whether they’ve been drinking enough water, or whether they could do with an additional sip or two. In a world where under-watering has far more damaging results than over-watering, a non-tech-enabled farmer may be tempted to keep the soil wetter than it needs to — wasting a tremendous amount of precious water in the process.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

Everyone with a smartphone knows it: apps get updated all the time. Whether you’re looking for a new feature or not, suddenly: there it is. This seems easy, but it’s not, especially when you’re building a SaaS stack and don’t have the deep technical resources to compete with Apple, Facebook, or Google (you’ll get compared to them whether you like it or not).

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How to pitch me: 4 VCs share what they’re looking for in March 2022

TechCrunch

There’s a galaxy of talented and/or well-connected startup founders out there, but few have any prior fundraising experience, which levels the playing field by an inch or two. Everybody loves a go-getter, but in many communities, asking strangers for money is still considered a sign of poor character, not characteristic of an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Survey Finds Widespread Adoption of DevOps in Mainframe Sites

DevOps.com

A survey of IT leaders by the market research firm Global Surveyz found a full 100% of respondents are modernizing their mainframe applications, but the reasons behind and approaches to achieving that goal vary widely. The research was conducted on behalf of Model9, a provider of tools for migrating mainframe data, and polled 100 companies […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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inFeedo gets $12M to help employers find out how their workforce really feels

TechCrunch

Employee sentiment can be hard to gauge, even at smaller businesses. This can lead to burnout and attrition, when managers least expect it. inFeedo wants to solve that problem by acting as a bridge between workers and their managers, with surveys performed through a chatbot called Amber, which inFeedo refers to as a “Chief Listening Officer.” The company announced today it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Tiger Global and returning invest

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How to Effectively Bridge the DevOps – R&D Gap Without Sacrificing Reliability

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps culture revolutionized our industry. Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration made six sigma reliability commonplace. 20 years ago we would kick the production servers and listen to the hard drive spin, that was observability. Today’s DevOps teams deploy monitoring tools that provide development teams with deep insight into the production environment. “ O brave new world That has such people in’t!

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Motto to launch a new electric bike subscription service in Paris

TechCrunch

Meet Motto , a new French startup that plans to offer electric bikes in Paris. Instead of buying those bikes, Motto customers will be able to rent them for a fixed price of €75 per month (around $82 at today’s exchange rate). Customers get Motto-branded electric bikes with a motor in the rear wheel that helps you pedal up to a speed of 25km/h. It has integrated lights, a GPS tracker and an anti-theft system.

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ServiceNow Launches Incident Management Platform Infused with Observability

DevOps.com

ServiceNow added an incident management platform based on the Lightstep observability platform it acquired last year to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolio. Ben Sigelman, general manager of Lightstep at ServiceNow, said Lightstep Incident Response gives DevOps teams access to observability tools that, via a self-service portal, enable them to determine the root cause of any incident […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Dive deep into Snorkel.AI’s pitch technique that raised $135m

TechCrunch

Storytelling is an art as old as civilization, but it’s rarely taught anywhere despite the fact that the ability to tell a good story is instrumental to success in many, many fields. Fundraising is one area where good storytelling can be table stakes, but few founders know how to communicate clearly and succinctly how their idea solves a problem.

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Tackling CostOps When You’re a Developer

DevOps.com

The implementation and successful execution of IT initiatives often comes down to developers. From those working with commercial vendors to those working with open source projects, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, managed service providers (MSPs) and internal teams, they all play an important role in the successful running of IT and operations teams.

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Beat the early-bird deadline to save $300 at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Not much else matches the fast, evolving pace of mobility technology. It’s revolutionizing the way we move people, as well as parcels both big and small, and it’s simultaneously reshaping the present and future of industries, cities and towns around the world. If you want to keep your fingers on mobility’s driving pulse, you can’t afford to miss TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 , a two-day, programming-packed summit covering all aspects of the mobility ecosystem.

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The 10G Challenge: How Zoom Leverages Technology to Improve Education

CableLabs

Designed to encourage innovation around the network of the future, the 10G Challenge aims to solve real-world problems and showcase the individuals and organizations developing the technologies, services and applications that will rely on 10G to impact the way we live, work, learn and play. With the 10G Challenge kicking off, CableLabs is excited to introduce another one of the industry experts we’ve tapped to help raise awareness about the contest.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Hear how Blumberg Capital and DoubleVerify have worked together since 2008 on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Oren Netzer and his co-founder Alex Liverant started DoubleVerify in the heady Web 2.0 days of 2008. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. The two firms have a long partnership, and we want to explore what made the relationship work over so many years and investors.

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How To Conduct A Cloud Cost Analysis: A Step-By-Step Framework

CloudZero

Business leaders and team members face countless decisions every day, some of which are certain to have an impact on the future of a company. Perhaps the most impactful to a SaaS company’s bottom line are financial decisions related to the cloud.

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Hidden insights: It’s all in the math

Beyond B2B

“ We have completed our terrain relative navigation. Current speed is about 30 meters per second, altitude is about 300 meters off the surface. Sky Crane maneuver has started. About 20 meters off the surface. We’re setting signals from the MRO. Tango delta. Touchdown confirmed. Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking for signs of past life. ”.

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Gaps in Kubernetes Adoption Data

d2iq

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently released its annual survey on the state of Kubernetes and containers. The report highlighted the tremendous and continued growth in Kubernetes adoption, as well as some challenges that still persist. Both of these takeaways mirrored the corresponding data points from our 2021 Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Annual Report.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Critical First, Comprehensive Later

Nathan Magnuson

One day when I was still working in a corporate role during the pandemic, I had a rather unique leadership class experience. I was scheduled to facilitate on a certain topic, but hadn’t actually received the training myself. I had planned to at least complete a preparatory review, but since I was covering for multiple unstaffed roles, I couldn’t quite get to it in time.

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NIST provides recommended criteria for cybersecurity labeling for consumer software and IoT products

Synopsys

Will NIST’s cybersecurity labeling for consumer software and IoT products help us achieve better security? Our experts weigh in. The post NIST provides recommended criteria for cybersecurity labeling for consumer software and IoT products appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Volunteer Management Apps for Food Security Organizations

TechSoup

Through independent research here at TechSoup, we have learned that one of the biggest obstacles faced by nonprofits addressing food security is volunteer management. Food security organizations need robust and effective solutions to keep track of volunteer hours and program delivery, especially with the need to pivot online due to the pandemic. In our recent Public Good App House demo event, four app developers introduced their solutions designed to address this need.

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Talking Tech with Travis: Episode 8- PowerStore with VMware DNA

Dell EMC

Travis Vigil and VP of Software Engineering George Papadopoulos, discuss how VMware was built into the DNA of PowerStore.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Secureworks® Cybersecurity Literacy Challenge

SecureWorks

Secureworks® Cybersecurity Literacy Challenge Build a Game for the Cause The Secureworks Cybersecurity Literacy Challenge is open to security practitioners, developers, and academics who believe they can develop an engaging way to increase cybersecurity awareness. (Employees of Secureworks, Dell, and our judges’ organizations are not eligible.).

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The Ten Stories Great Leaders Tell

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leadership isn’t just about standing up and speaking, it’s about weaving a story so compelling to bring everyone along the journey with you. Today’s post is by Paul Smith, thoughtLEADERS principal and author of the new book The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell. (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Good leaders ask, “How do I tell better stories?” Great leaders ask, “What stories do I need to tell?

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Connect With Data Experts Through the Dataiku Neurons Program

Dataiku

The Dataiku Neurons program was launched in 2020 to recognize our most exceptional users, who embody our mission to empower everyone in the organization with Everyday AI.